OPTIMIZING A SECURITY CONFIGURATION OF A NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT

Systems, methods, and apparatuses enable one or more security microservices to optimize a security configuration of a networked environment by applying security policies to resource groups passively to determine whether network sets, resource groups, or security policies should be modified, prior to active enforcement. When security policies are applied passively, security actions that are performed in response to a violation of security policy do not impact network traffic. The one or more security microservices evaluate the results of the passive application of security policies to determine whether there is at least one recommended modification to network sets, resource groups, or security policies. When there is at least one recommended modification, the modification is applied. When there are no recommended modifications or the recommended modifications have been performed, the one or more security microservices initiate active enforcement of at least a subset of the security policies on the network traffic.